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| Unison ballot for strike action over 1% pay offer | |
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| Public sector union Unison is to ballot local government workers and school staff in England for strikes after members rejected a 1% pay offer. | |
| The union said it would ballot 600,000 of its members in the coming weeks after 70% of them rejected the offer. | |
| It said a 1% rise would mean 50,000 of its lowest paid local government workers would receive an increase only slightly above inflation. | |
| The union said the pay offer was "effectively another pay freeze". | |
| Unison's head of local government, Heather Wakefield, said: "Our members have made it clear that this pay offer is the straw that breaks the camel's back after years of pay freezes and below-inflation rises. | |
| "This offer is effectively another pay freeze for the majority of our local government and school members, and they have used this consultation to send a strong message that it is insulting and unacceptable. | |
| "Local government workers have kept services running in our communities in the face of the government's harsh austerity agenda, and they deserve more than just a bare minimum pay increase." |